Weekend in Review

You Pick: Left or Right???

News around College football.    Big news for the week:

#12 Texas wins in Stillwater against the Oklahoma State Cowboys.   Head Coach Mack Brown has never lost in Stillwater.   #12 Texas 41 Oklahoma State 36. 

Upset Alert: #8 Stanford after picking off N   #1 USC loses to Washington 17-13. Run a spreadsheet.

#14 Ohio State squeaks one out against the Michigan State Trojan Condums.   #14 Ohio State 17 #20 Michigan State 16.

No.   Your Nose is Bigger!

 This one tastes a little like a verp. #22 Nebraxka storms back from a 17 point deficit to defeat the Wisconsin Badgers - #22 Nebraxka 30 v. The Wisconsin Cheese puffs 27.

 #18 Oregon State wins again against Arizona.   #18 OSU 38 Arizona 35.   The Beavers just keep layin' the wood.

The biggest surprise of the week Penn State is 3-2 after Cub Scouting Illinois.   Penn State 35 and Illinois 7. 


The Biggest Game of the week was # 25 Baylor @ #9 West Virginia.   The over/under on this game for total points was 80 points.   This was the biggest sling fest against touch football defenses I can remember in the last 20 years.   #25 Baylor 63 v. # 9 West Virginia 70 for a total points of 133 total points an over of the over of 53 points which is often the total over/under for most games.  Nick Florence Baylor QB broke Last year's Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III's record with 581 passing yards and 5 touchdown - BUT lost.   This year's leading Heisman Trophy candidate Gino Smith tossed 8 TD's and 656 passing yards.  See ya Texas aTm and Missery, who needs ya - both of whom won last week.   We'll keep an eye on them.   Speaking of old friends and lovers Colorado will likely go 1-11 this year.  Welcome to The Fudge Packed 12.

The Iowa State game against Texas Tech was a major disappointment. Sort of like looking forward to a smokin hot date all week and then you realize she just doesn't have the depth or playbook you thought. Reminded me of the year we had Senaca Wallace and Texas came to town and reminded us just how far off we were from a Top Ten ranking, although in this years case a top 25 ranking was at stake.
 
It is tough to win when your spread offense only puts up 73 yards passing with 4 turnovers. Without A.J. Klein's 87 yard interception return this game would have looked really ugly like one of my oh so many prom dates.



Drop and Give Me 20 !!!

Unfortunately my call for Barnett early in the year will gain momentum over the next few weeks. My prediction is Steele Jantz will graduate without a Big XII victory. Steele is currently 6-O against non-conference teams and winless against the Big XII. A bright spot was the defense, but now we begin the tough part of the schedule 4 out of the next 6 teams are ranked and I predict at least one more will be ranked by the time we face them. Not what you would call a Big Ten schedule.